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musig2: add Session.RegisterCombinedNonce

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Authored by sputn1ck

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musig2: add Session.RegisterCombinedNonce

This commit adds a new function to musig2.Session, which allows the caller
to add an external aggregated nonce to the session.
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit adds a new public method called RegisterCombinedNonce to the MuSig2 multi-signature code in btcd. It lets a signing session accept an already-aggregated public nonce from an external coordinator, instead of requiring each signer to collect every individual nonce itself. The change is a feature addition with explicit safety checks: it rejects registering a combined nonce twice, rejects mixing combined-nonce and individual-nonce registration on the same session, validates the nonce parses as two valid public keys, and preserves the existing one-sign-per-session nonce-reuse guard. Nothing in the commit message or diff suggests a security bug is being fixed; it appears to be a normal API enhancement for coordinator-based signing workflows.

Recommended action

Treat as a routine feature commit. Reviewers may want to confirm that RegisterCombinedNonce is covered by the same session-lifecycle invariants as RegisterPubNonce, and that callers cannot bypass the numSigners consistency check by supplying a combined nonce. No immediate security action is indicated by the supplied materials.

Security signals we found

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New externally supplied cryptographic input path added (combined nonce)

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Input is validated by parsing both halves as secp256k1 public keys

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State-machine guards prevent double registration and mixed registration modes

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Existing nonce-reuse protection (ErrSigningContextReuse) remains in effect

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No mention of vulnerability, CVE, bug fix, or security issue in commit metadata

Risk score

Why this scored 17/100

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Potential impact 0/30
Exploitability 0/25
Stealth signal 0/15
Affected reach 5/15
Confidence 8/10
Evidence quality 4/5
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